#OCC Model

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On Making Believable Emotional Agents Believable

Andrew Ortony, 2002:

I think that these categories [collapsed OCC model] have enough generative capacity to endow any agent with the potential for a rich and varied emotional life. As the information processing capabilities of the agent become richer, more elaborate ways of characterising the good and the bad become possible, so that one can imagine a system starting with only the competence to differentiate positive from negative and then developing progressively more elaborate categories. A simple example of this idea is that fear can be viewed as a special case of a negative feeling about something bad happening - with the bad thing being the prospect of something bad happening. If one adopts this position, then one is left with the idea that the main driving force underlying all emotions is the registration of good and bad and that discrete emotions can arise to the extent that the nature of what is good and bad for the agent can be elaborated. Indeed, this may well be how humans develop increasingly sophisticated emotion systems as they move from infancy through childhood to adulthood.

I wonder why we haven't seen ANY believable emotional agents with all the resources and information on this topic.